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Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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OPINION: Proud of your students for walking out? Here’s what to do when they walk back in

The Hechinger Report

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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OPINION: Numbers evoke joy and wonder, why doesn’t math class?

The Hechinger Report

Research shows that math anxiety is prevalent, and the effects of this can linger long after students finish school, interfering with their ability to use quantitative reasoning in their professional and civic lives. The math taught in high schools often doesn’t align with the needs of many fields or the expectations of many colleges.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, 83 percent of the school’s students graduated within four years; last year, 91 percent did. At Thomas Harrison Middle School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, eighth-grade civics teachers saw significant gains in student performance when they altered the type of feedback they gave struggling students. Hulleman and Kenn E.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society? Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. She advocated for change.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

But community organizers, civic activists, and social movements—as well as corporate and political elites—have long understood the importance of meetings. The irreplaceable role of the meeting for spurring policy change is to hold the listening , to open a space of collective possibility.